{"id":12442,"date":"2021-09-20T11:02:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T09:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.territoriomudejar.es\/patrimonio\/casa-de-la-estanca-borja\/"},"modified":"2022-09-12T13:09:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T11:09:31","slug":"casa-de-la-estanca-borja","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.territoriomudejar.es\/en\/patrimonio\/casa-de-la-estanca-borja\/","title":{"rendered":"Casa de La Estanca, Borja"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCamino Vardebajil. 50540 Borja (Zaragoza)\r\n\r\nCURRENT PROTECTION STATUS:<\/strong>\r\nAsset of Cultural Interest (ACI)

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\r\nARCHITECTURAL STYLE:<\/strong> Mudejar

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCasa de la Estanca is located to the north of the town of Borja. It is one of the few examples of public civil Aragonese Mudejar architecture still standing. The building was commissioned by the City Council as a result of the creation of the Estanca reservoir, which expanded the irrigation system for Borja and neighboring towns.\r\n\r\nIt is a free-standing structure comprising a prismatic volume measuring 5.40 meters wide on each side, and the interior is divided into three levels, aligned with the three distinct sections of the fa\u00e7ade. This alignment is not seen on Mudejar monuments from the 14th century.\r\n\r\nThe ground floor contains a single room with a staircase leading to the upper levels in one of the corners.\r\n\r\nThe first floor was used as a dwelling and is divided into three spaces: a kitchen and two bedrooms (following the typical layout of vernacular buildings from the 16th century).\r\n\r\nThe upper level consists of a single space with a low ceiling and was used as storage for the reservoir keeper\u2019s tools.\r\n\r\nThe lower level consists of roughly hewn ashlars clad in face brick on the left side. In addition, the ground floor and first floor are covered with an architrave structure, while the second floor features a wood-framed hipped roof.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAlterations were made in the 18th century, such as those rendered in 1771 to lower the roof and build stables adjacent to the rear fa\u00e7ade.\r\n\r\nMudejar elements are found on all three levels of the building\u2019s exterior fa\u00e7ades, the ornamental scheme repeating itself on all four sides of the building.\r\n\r\nThe main fa\u00e7ade faces south, where this three-sectioned design can be observed. The middle section features strips of double courses of angled bricks in a stretcher bond arrangement along with a panel of decorative brickwork consisting of a grid of double-angled crosses forming a regular geometric pattern. The upper section has five double round arches in the typical Aragonese arcade fashion. The fa\u00e7ade is finished with a strip of angled brick to form the eaves, which must have been higher prior to the work done in 1771.\r\n\r\nIn 1771, the stables were built on the rear fa\u00e7ade, and the west fa\u00e7ade, which had been damaged, was coated in a layer of brick and mortar. The middle section of the east fa\u00e7ade has a flat-arched opening, constructed in response to damage sustained over time, that disrupts the decorative elements.\r\n\r\nWith the arrival of classical elements in the 16th century, we see a decline in this art form. This was prompted by the assimilation of renascent ornamentation, leading to the co-existence of both styles and to the subsequent decline of the Mudejar style.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRestoration, 21st century (2012)<\/strong>\r\nIn 2012 the Borja city council restored Casa de la Estanca. The work focused on stabilizing the foundations and restoring the fa\u00e7ades.\r\n